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On the Darkness, Strangeness, and Unbridled Joy of Children's Books

On the Darkness, Strangeness, and Unbridled Joy of Children's Books

Cara Hoffman Gets Real About Talking Mice

By Cara Hoffman | October 22, 2019

Remembering Kate Braverman's Los Angeles

Remembering Kate Braverman's Los Angeles

Liska Jacobs on the Laureate of Southern California

By Liska Jacobs | October 22, 2019

Alejandro Zambra on One of the Great Diarists of the 20th Century

Alejandro Zambra on One of the Great Diarists of the 20th Century

Julio Ramon Ribeyro, Descendant of Kafka and Borges, True Skeptic of the Novel

By Alejandro Zambra | October 22, 2019

Marguerite Duras: Internet Essayist?

Marguerite Duras: Internet Essayist?

On Leaving a Public Record of Your Mistakes

By Maddie Crum | October 21, 2019

Capturing Natural Coincidences, in Fiction and Life

Capturing Natural Coincidences, in Fiction and Life

Martha Cooley on the Vajont Disaster, Julio Cortazar, and the Strange Power of Serendipity

By Martha Cooley | October 21, 2019

Do Printed-Out Emails Count As Letters? (Yes)

Do Printed-Out Emails Count As Letters? (Yes)

Dheepa Maturi on the Value of Epistolary Correspondence,
in What Ever Form

By Dheepa R. Maturi | October 21, 2019

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On the Sexist Reception of Willa Cather's World War I Novel

By Rebecca Onion | October 21, 2019

On J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron: Perennially, Lamentably, Current

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Orwell's Notes on 1984: Mapping the Inspiration of a Modern Classic

By D.J. Taylor | October 18, 2019

How Beth Brant Uplifted the Voices of Native American Queer Women

How Beth Brant Uplifted the Voices of Native American Queer Women

On Taking a More Inclusive Approach to Indigenous Writing

By Janice Gould | October 18, 2019

The Hungarian Author Who Foresaw the Future of Nationalism

The Hungarian Author Who Foresaw the Future of Nationalism

Considering Krisztina Tóth's Pointed Case for Open Borders

By Stephanie Newman | October 17, 2019

A Friendship in Letters: <br> Flannery O'Connor and Katherine Anne Porter

A Friendship in Letters:
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Talk of Peacocks, Easter, and Porter's Ship of Fools

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Demystifying the Writer's Fear of Failure

Demystifying the Writer's Fear of Failure

Sarah Labrie on Why Writing is Supposed to Be Difficult

By Sarah LaBrie | October 16, 2019

Harold Bloom on Cormac McCarthy, True Heir to Melville and Faulkner

Harold Bloom on Cormac McCarthy, True Heir to Melville and Faulkner

On Violence, the Sublime, and Blood Meridian's Place in the American Canon

By Harold Bloom | October 16, 2019

The Impossibility of Capturing Truth in a Biography

The Impossibility of Capturing Truth in a Biography

Iris Origo on Why We Try Anyway

By Iris Origo | October 15, 2019

Who Has the Right to Write About Hurricane Katrina?

Who Has the Right to Write About Hurricane Katrina?

Maggie Neil on The Yellow House and the Many Names of Loss

By Maggie Neil | October 11, 2019

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